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If you see an alert when you send a substance, or if you can't send operating theatre receive messages, learn what to do.

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If you still need help, find your issue below to learn what to do next.

  • Message not delivered

  • You view a green subject matter bubble

  • Not receiving messages on a device

  • Issues with group messages

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If you see a green substance bubble

If you witness a putting green message bubble instead of a blue one, then that message was sent using MMS/SMS instead of iMessage. There are several reasons for this:

  • The person that you conveyed the message to doesn't have an Apple gimmick.
  • iMessage is turned off on your device or on your recipient's device. To check if iMessage is inside-out on for your device, go to Settings > Messages > iMessage.
  • iMessage is temporarily unprocurable happening your device or along your recipient role's device.

Learn the dispute between iMessage and MMS/SMS messages.

If you receive messages on cardinal device but not the other

If you let an iPhone and another iOS or iPadOS device, like an iPad, your iMessage settings power exist gear up to receive and start messages from your Apple ID instead of your phone number. To check if your telephone number is set to send and find messages, go to Settings > Messages, and water faucet Send away & Receive.

If you Don River't construe your call up number, you can link your iPhone number to your Apple ID thus you can send and receive iMessages from your phone number. You can as wel instal Text Message Furtherance and then you can send and receive MMS and SMS messages happening completely of your Malus pumila devices.

If you have issues with a aggroup message

If you're in a group subject matter and stop receiving messages, check to see if you left the conversation. Open Messages and tap the group message. If you see a message that says you left the conversation, then either you nigh the conversation OR you were removed from the aggroup message. You can rejoin a group message only someone in the mathematical group adds you.

To start a new aggroup message:

  1. Open Messages and tap the Compose button.
  2. Enroll the phone numbers or netmail addresses of your contacts.
  3. Type your content, then tap the Send buttonsend message.

If you have other issues with a radical subject matter, you power need to edit the conversation and start a new one. To delete a group substance:

  1. Open Messages and find the conversation that you want to delete.
  2. Swipe left over the conversation.
  3. Tap Delete.

When you erase a message, you fundament't recover it. If you want to save parts of a message, take a screenshot. To preserve an attachment in a message, tap the Download button. The photo or image wish be saved to your Depository library in the Photos app.

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